Hi, For basic scanning, the Convenient OCR feature of JAWS does a decent job, sometimes better than Open Book. alternatively, if you need a full-featured, robust blindness-oriented scanning and readin

Hi, I‘ve used the newest versions of convenient OCR often and haven’t found a way to send the text to any program other than Word. If you want to place the text in Wordpad, Notepad or anywhere in part

Hey Chris, The link that you posted worked and I now have Silenzio up and running. Thanks a bunch. Tom

Hi, I took a look at the silenzio.zip file that I got from sourceforge and it contains some sort of Italian avatar. OOPS! Sorry about that. Disregard my previous message. Chris, if you can post a link

Hi, I found it at Sourceforge. It’s a relatively small zip file at 7.5 megs. You can get it at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/silenzio/ Tom

Hi Chris, I looked for Silenzio yesterday and couldn’t find it. Do have a link to it, or is it small enough to send it to me? Thanks, Tom

Hi all, Immediately after installing JAWS 2021 this morning, I noticed that speech at the beginning of words was being cut off when moving around in dialog boxes, list views, et cetera. As you can wel

Hi, Years ago there was a product called a Plustek Opticbook 3600 book edge scanner. It’s claim to fame was a scanner bed which extended all the way to its front edge, thus allowing you to place the b

SiriusXM Hi, To use PictureSmart, press alt+space followed by P, then C. I tried it on one of the graphics and got the following: Caption is a screenshot of a cell phone. This text appears in the phot

Hi, I use Excel 2016 on Windows 10 with Jaws 2019 all day long at work and have few if any issues. However, one of my coworkers who has nearly an identical configuration can’t edit cells in a spreadsh

Hi, I use Jaws 2019 with Excel in Office 2016 at work every day and have no major issues. I don’t mess around with charts, graphs, et cetera, just routine data entry, and it works fine. Tom

Don’t know. By the way, oracle is spelled o r a c l e.

Hi, Going back even as far as Windows XP, I’ve seen many instances in which invoking the Jaws cursor and then using the arrow keys results in “blank, blank, blank” et cetera and I’ve never gotten a sa

Hi, Hi, Sounds like you need to install the Convenient OCR component. Go to the Freedom Scientific web site, click on Downloads, then JAWS, and you should find it there. Download and install it and yo

Hi, While it may be true that something in Windows is corrupted and in need of some serious repair, File Explorer may be getting bogged down and hanging up especially during occasions when you are att

Hi, I’d heard that He’s now at Microsoft but I wasn’t sure in what capacity. I wonder if he’s somehow responsible for the progress made with Narrator. With Doug at the helm, good things are surely in

Hi If you’re going to be scanning using a desktop PC, Epson scanners are always a good option. If you’re using a laptop and need portability, the Cannon Lide 220 only needs power from the USB port, wi

As Richard said, Jaws is reading the path to the graphics. Sloppy coding from someone who may be clueless about accessibility.

#cal-notice #excel #advisory

Yes. Ctrl+2 should do. the trick. Tom

Hi, Thanks, Cristobol. Yes, good deals on used gear can be had if one is willing to look around, and it’s always a good idea to spec it out before forking over the cash. Now, Mr. Donahue, I gotta tell